Books
How Britain made Assam
Caroline Keen is a breath of fresh air, but this time she falls short
Your front-room friend
Whatever the teething troubles, wireless was a miracle that brought people together
Young man — there’s a place you can go …
Everything changes in the end and not always for the better
Russian roulette
Musicians lived in constant terror of putting a foot, or a note, wrong
Understanding the inbetweeners
Helping your teenagers escape the doom loop
A peerless witness
What will strike readers is the sheer continental range of Norman Lewis’ writing
Kick off the new year with a comic novel
There’s a pleasure in every paragraph and a tartness to set off the sweetness
The disappeared and the damned
A reflection on Roger Scruton’s neglected “grooming gangs” novel
Keeping the faith
It is as if Aquinas himself occupied the timeless eternity he reserved for God
Being cruel to women
“JustBeKindism” conceals the fact that sometimes doing right by women means taking from men
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
From Newton to newts
Putting badgers on the banknotes may avoid controversy, but it also avoids saying anything meaningful about Britain at all
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer